Saturday, 31 December 2011

Boxing Day Scandi Brunch pictures

Food is important. Shopping. Furniture. Domesticity. Larsson invites us to identify with his heroes by filling in the ordinary moments of their lives, the humdrum aloneness that makes colorful sexual encounters so desirable. A cookbook could be compiled from Blomkvist’s efforts in the kitchen in the first novel of the trilogy. Salander prefers to get herself pizza and Coke. Both of them are used to eating alone in front of a computer screen.

Pic by Bellaphon: potato salad with soured cream, red onion, dill. Jar of sweet pickles. Bowl of herrings from Sweden. Plenty of coffee was served which is very Swedish. (In fact I'm surprised that Mikael Blomkvist got ANYthing done in the Millenium trilogy as they spent 90% of their time having 'fika' and drinking coffee).

Saffron lussekatter

Serve yourself Jarlsberg cheese with typical cheese slice.

Plenty of candlelight as is typical in Sweden. Guests enjoying the lazy brunch. Love brunch, why don't more people book for it?

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Supper Club: recipes and notes from the underground restaurant

@msmarmitelover on Twitter

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The Guardian on Supper Club: recipes and notes from the underground restaurant (Dec 2011)